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Rook's Theatre was founded in Hamilton in 2017 under the simple and stubborn premise that good theatre doesn't need a permanent home to have a permanent impact.

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Rook's Theatre

We make site-specific, deliberately intimate productions in churches, cafés, mission halls and galleries because we believe the space a story lives in is part of the story. It's true every time.

Hamilton has an arts community that punches well above its weight. We've been proud to make work in partnership with Eucharist Church, St. Luke's Mission, the Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts, 541 Eatery and Exchange, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and others - organizations doing meaningful things in this city, with whom we've tried to do the same. We work in and with the city we love.

Our mainstage productions bring challenging, carefully chosen plays into spaces that make theatre feel immediate and unavoidable.

Young Rooks is where emerging theatre artists are invited into the rehearsal room to take part in the work.

Rook's Hatch is made up of our associate artists and the people we love to make the work with.

SEASON 9 DROPPING SOON

COMING SOON

PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE

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We All Got Lost

by Camille Intson

Young Rooks
August 2026

SEASON 08

2026

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A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen
November 2025

SEASON 07

2025

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare
September & October 2024

SEASON 06

2024

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Every Brilliant Thing 
by Duncan Macmillan
with Jonny Donahoe

May 2023

SEASON 05

2023

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Quarantine

Just like Shakespeare

Every Brilliant Thing
by Duncan Macmillan
with Jonny Donahoe

Postponed due to COVID-19

SEASON 04

2020

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SEASON 03

2019

Mary's Wedding

by Stephen Massicotte

Remount

April 2019

Treasure Island

Workshop presentation

February 2019

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Mary's Wedding

by Stephen Massicotte

November 2018

Gore Park Christmas Market

December 2018

SEASON 02

2018

Venus in Fur

by David Ives

October 2017

Holiday Radio Play Series

December 2017

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SEASON 01

2017

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Rook's Theatre is based and creates theatre in Hamilton, Ontario. The City of Hamilton is situated on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an arrangement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

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